Today we went to see the autumn colors at the Okutama area. We took the bus from Okutama sta. to Okutamako bus stop, then walked down the old trail called Mukashi-michi to Sakaibashi bus stop. Then we took the bus back to the station and went to the hot spring.

Ampelopsis brevipedunculata (Nobudou)ノブドウの色鮮やかな実。

As soon as we started the old trail, we found some persimmons eaten by somebody on the road...むかし道を歩き始めるや否や、何者かに食い散らされた柿のみが路上に…

It was a wild monkey which ate the persimmons!犯人はおサルさんでした。

Okutama Lake is actually a dam built to save the water for people living in Tokyo.

November 9, 2007

Today I went to The Institute of Nature Science, National Science Museum at the Shirokane area in Tokyo. The place preserves the original environment of Tokyo at the middle of the cities of central Tokyo. It is pretty amazing that we could see such a pretty nice forest in city side of Tokyo. They even keeps the marsh where lots of kinds of plants grow, too. On the way home, I stopped by the bakery, PAUL at the Yotsuya sta. and the sweets shop, StefanoAnna at Kichijoji.

Pan de campagne and apple pie from PAUL at Yotsuya.四谷駅ビル内のPAULのパン・ド・カンパーニュとアップルパイ。紙袋のデザインが素敵です。

StefanoAnna in Kichijoji.

The sweets from "StefanoAnna" in Kichijoji. The big one is called "Fagottino", which contains pretty rich Fran-like stuff with lots of nuts and raisins and apples covered with pie. Other small sweets also tastes pretty good.巷で噂の吉祥寺、ステファノアンナでお菓子を買ってきました。小さな焼き菓子が量り売りで売られていて、好きなものを好きなだけ買うことができます。しみじみほっとできる味のお菓子たちでした。

Beautiful blue sky for the last day of autumn on the Japanese calendar.暦の上ではもう秋も最後の日。見事な秋晴れです。

Today I went to see the chrysanthemum exhibition at Jindai Botanical garden. There were more chrysanthemum flowers than the one I saw at Shinjuku Gyoen Park the other day. Each flowers were pretty beautiful but the way to display them didn't look like as elegant as the one at Shinjuku Gyoen. The maple leaves were just barely starting to change the colors there. We have to wait a little more to see nice autumn color around here in Tokyo. After that, of course I went to eat some Soba noodles at Yuusui Soba shop. It tastes always good!

I stopped by the JA Mitaka on the way home. They sell lots of vegetables and flowers grown by the hands of the local farmers. I made the chicken meatball soup with a hint of Yuzu citron flavor.帰り道にJA三鷹の施設に立ち寄って、地場物の野菜たちを仕入れてきました。白菜、からし菜、ルッコラ、泥つきねぎ、ゆず。夕食は、たっぷり白菜とねぎの鶏団子鍋にしていただきました。

Today we went to Okutama to see how the autumn color at the Kawanori area came out. It was pretty cloudy and hard to see the mountains with haze. It was not the peak of the autumn color yet, but we could see quite good colors here and there in the mountains.

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Thank you for visiting my blog. Here you can see some wild flowers and animals I found here and there in Japan. You can see most of them at the place which is not so far from where I used to live in Tokyo.
Now we are in Fairbanks, Alaska, so I will upload some more pictures from our daily lives and the northern wilderness.
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